Audacity Forum

Audacity does that when you use the default setting of "Copy All Work Before Editing" (or words like that). Audacity is making a duplicate copy of the work and that does take a while -- but it's very safe. If you change the opening setting to reference the work instead of copying it, it mi...

Windows machines come out of the plastic wrap all set for video and audio conferencing. The system thinks your playing is air conditioning noise and is trying its best to cancel it out.

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Koz

Audacity has Labels and you can use labels with a special Export command to cut your show up into individual songs. You need to know that Music CDs need a Music CD Authoring Program. You can't just copy music files to a CD and call it done. Music CDs are a special format of disk. Windows Media can b...

The song from your phone is probably in a form that Audacity doesn't understand. When that happens, Audacity plays the song as if it didn't have compression and you get that squeak. You can install the FFMpeg software that allows Audacity to open many different modern compressions. "lame" ...

That's the kind of thing that can happen if you like to record internet songs and shows and don't turn those settings off. That messes up straight recording. Also that can happen if you're recording the microphone instead of the turntable. In the Device Toolbar, make sure you're recording from the t...

Can I extend that by saying you want to do this in Chicago with the Audacity running in Los Angeles, right? No Recording? Koz I remember fuzzily that someone got this to work using remote desktop software like NX. I know I've been able to get VidCap video recording software to work like that. The on...

Did you try to save and load from the same file? Open myMusic.wav and Export to myMusic.wav? Try just as an experiment Export to a different name. Using the same name like that is usually a bad idea,because if anything goes wrong, both the old and the new show get damaged. Yes, punctuation marks in ...

a CD image typically in flac

Is it a FLAC sound file or a digital image file? Does it open and play in Windows Media or QuickTime Player?

Audacity has an unfortunate history of opening and displaying files it has no business opening -- see: compressed sound files and advanced formats.
Koz

That was the wrong answer. [email protected]#$. I don't know what could do that. I'm going straight for virus damage or other exotic problems that could damage sound files over time. What I'm getting now is noise which just sounds like a quick hiss and no parts of the oiginal are recognizable. Quick hiss? Like a t...

I'm guessing zero. That iPod plug on the device is not compatible with PC sound cards whether the tiny cards are built into a laptop or separate, larger sound cards in a large desktop. Sometimes we find people get so wrapped up in forcing a device to work they lose track of the goal. What is the goa...